Humans constantly influence, negotiate and motivate since prehistoric ages. Influence is not a new currency, it is the first one indeed.
On a daily basis one influences one’s seniors, colleagues & teams to build speed agility at workplace. One acts as a positive influence for family to keep at routines. Infact even seemingly inconsequential decisions like where to dine, which flight to take, etc require influencing one’s peers.
Thus we are all influencers. And shall always be 💪
Read a book and you learn. Live through an experience and you gain knowledge.
Both go hand in hand as an individual grows and shapes up in life. Neither is superior to the other, nor can one suffice what other imparts. Without learning and individual is at loss of understanding the fundamentals. Without knowledge an individual is not worldly wise.
Vashisth imparted learning to Ram while Vishwamitra gave opportunities to face the reality of the world. Can you imagine Ram being the मर्यादा पुरुष, the best of men without either?
Choices. We make numerous of them on daily basis. Some turn out good, others may fall flat. Infact even that is just a perspective. One man’s good can be another’s bad.
All choices difficult are different. But not necessarily all choices different are difficult. It’s a matter of perspective, a diverse point of view and an understanding which lies deep within each one of us.
Lots we do is about securing, planning and building the future.
Stashing away stuff for a prized event. Organizing routines for a special occasion. Looking forward to a celebration.
All this when we can’t be sure of how tomorrow is going to turn out. Dead or alive, we can’t see into the crystal bowl.
So celebrate today. It’s a privilege to be alive & kicking. Having food on the plate, clothes to wear and roof over the head calls for being grateful and feeling special too.
The grass is always green on the other side. Empty nesters crave company, full nesters crave solitude. Parents seek silence, couples seek space and singles seek intimacy.
If only we could start stirring a dollop of joy in what we do and chime in a jingle apt for what we are facing. If only we could start fully embracing the cards we are dealt on a daily basis. ‘I am happy, I am blessed’ is a human rarity.
What comes first? Your role chooses your routine or your routine defines your role?
For most working parents, roles define their routines. Once in a while they would love to be away from the parenting mode and focus on other aspects of life. Helping the individual nurture their holistic personality and other shades of a being.
Sometimes, the role remains but in a different setting, one where the routine can be more relaxed. This arrangement helps develop the existing bond. Devoid of the pressure of routine, one can be spontaneous in their quality of time spent together.
But these were rare settings. More often than not, in daily life neither can be escaped from. Take the middle path – where the role remains but the routines can be flexed to the maximum!
By guru I don’t mean the dhoti clad, self proclaimed god-men. I mean what if you were living, thriving and growing by the principles of one and only one person – could be your parent, your spouse or a friend you are enamored with. Wouldn’t that blindside you, giving you no perspective that’s different than theirs.
It would be terrific to subscribe to the views and behaviours of various experts. Follow a health coach for your fitness goals, look upto a successful professional on your field for career guidance and speak to a parent-role model for your parenting woes. Limiting ourselves to a uni-dimensional life and thoughts of one is certainly not a growth path. Seek your tribe in all your spheres and cherish the real connections you make along the way.
Mountains or beach?
Tea or coffee?
Big city or Small town?
Past or Future?
Global or local?
Personal or Professional?
Traditional or Contemporary?
This or that?
Have you ever felt that you don’t belong to either. That you have a bit of both but don’t completely identify with just one of the two. Welcome to the world of ambivalents – those who are neither extremes but lie somewhere in the middle. The good part – you get best of both worlds. The bad part – neither has your heart.
Step 1 : We read, we process.
Step 2 : We assume, we analyze.
Step 3 : We prepare, we review.
& then life throws one of its curveballs. The unexpected. Go to step 1 and repeat.
Between the ‘process, prepare, repeat’ cycle, life happens. We can choose to beat ourselves down everytime the unexpected happens or can continue to adjust all the while humming our favourite tune.
Often considered an alternate economy, household productivity does support the mainstream economy and boosts domestic output albeit indirectly. Household productivity or the time spent in chores done to keep the home in order aren’t considered a part of nation’s economy as it alters the conventional parameters and can be misleading in policy making decisions.
A proxy indicator can be utilization of automation and outsourcing. Automation indicators like sales of refrigerators, washing-drying machines, dishwashers, robotic vaccum cleaners, etc are already part of Gross Domestic Product. It’s time now that outsourcing chores also gets measurable indicators and thereby included in the formal economy. For example childcare, gardening, home maintenance and likes are already listed services available in developed nations. Adding cooking cleaning, laundry, pet care, etc to the catalogue would make it comprehensive and give more dignity to these workers.
Here’s wishing for more power to the unorganised sector in the future decades! 💪
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